Johann Ludwig Huber

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Johann Ludwig Huber (born March 21, 1723 in Großheppach ; died September 20, 1800 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician, lawyer, poet , theologian and philosopher.

Life

Huber was taught the ancient languages ​​from early childhood by his father, who was a pastor in Großheppach, because he wanted him to become a theologian. He attended the "lower seminars" in Denkendorf and Maulbronn and was then a scholarship holder of the Tübingen monastery , where in 1743 he obtained his master's degree . After his father's death he turned to the jurisprudence to his doctorate in 1749 for a licentiate of the rights and advocate was the Hofgericht in Stuttgart. In 1751 he became administrator of the Vogtei Nagold and in 1756 the Vogtei Lustnau , to which the monastery office of Bebenhausen belonged.

In 1762 he finally became senior bailiff in Tübingen with the rank and title of government councilor . As such, in 1764 he convinced the estates and the official colleges of the illegality of a tax change sought by Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg , in which the state's military contribution was to be increased by half without the consent of the estates. Duke Huber blamed the failure of the project. In Tübingen and throughout Württemberg, on the other hand, he was honored many times for his courageous resistance to the intended breach of the constitution, for example the Tübingen faculty awarded him a doctorate on May 27, 1764. When Huber now also declared that he could not collect so-called monthly taxes that had already been set for military spending , the Duke imposed military execution on Tübingen, i.e. the city was placed under military administration, relieved Huber of his office in June 1764 without charge and formal proceedings arrested him together with the Tübingen mayor and three other respected citizens and brought him to Hohenasperg fortress , where he held him prisoner for six months. Only the intervention of the imperial ambassador freed him from dungeon at Christmas 1764.

Since Huber was now without office and income, the estates offered him an annual pension of 600 guilders, which enabled him to devote himself entirely to his poetic and literary interests in the following years. As early as 1751 he had published a volume with odes , songs and stories. A volume of poems followed in 1783, which was published by the Erlangen bookseller Johann Philipp Palm . Five of his sacred songs were included in the Württemberg hymn book of 1791, including The harvest is there, the stalk beckons . In 1779 he published Das Lotto or the honest Schulze , a piece in one act , of his dramatic works , and in 1791 he published the drama Tamara . In addition to the lyrical and dramatic works, Huber wrote several theological writings, including a collection published anonymously in 1789 with four sermons for the citizens and peasants about the complaints of the subjects against their masters, especially because of the wild prett, the merrymakers, taxes, theurung, and other things , as well as two commemorative writings, namely to his lifelong friend Eberhard von Gemmingen , to whom most of Huber's works are dedicated and at whose request he moved to Stuttgart in 1788, and to the Tübingen logician and philosopher Gottfried Ploucquet . His last work was Something from my curriculum vitae and something from my muse on the Vestung (1798), an autobiographical work about the time of his imprisonment on the Hohenasperg with a collection of poems written there. From one of these poems:

So the wretched was pinned to the Caucasus rocks
Then the Geir eats its entrails.
O! That no enemy hears them, the impatient voice,
A moment's lament!
He wants to mock the whimpering tone along with the accident:
Such a triumph does not belong to him!
I want to snatch my unhappiness and suffering from the sarcastic smile
The wickedness that plays with tears.

Huber died in Stuttgart in 1800 at the age of 67.

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  1. ↑ Samuel Baur : General historical concise dictionary of all strange people who died in the last decade of the 18th century. Ulm 1803, sv Huber, (Joh. Ludw.) .
  2. ↑ Another dreadful vestment song. In: Something from my résumé. Stuttgart 1798, p. 192.
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Johann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, lawyer, poet, theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Großheppach
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1800
Place of death Stuttgart